SP has asls, and askesd again, and agin for you assholes to send her recipes for food stuff fpr Thanksgiving. GET ON IT YOU JERKS! Personall, I think food is a pain int he ass. But SP wants your recipes. So send them to her. Here;’s mine. Â She’s sweet and wpnderful and puts up with OMWC so you know she’s a tolerant kid.
Jamie Lee Curtis is still awesome.
Speaking of stars getting together…
Apparently you can be fined for not hypothesizing enough.
Google is tracking your trees.
The Martian tweezer industry is born.
This just in: Architects masturbate just like everyone else.
The researchers emphasize that vacuum cleaners are just one example of potential vulnerability to Lidar-based spying.
Anyone wanna buy a used Roomba Fleshlight?
Say wut? Is that one of them roomba things with this mounted on it?
Are we there yet?
Don’t make me turn this year around!
Groundhog Year
*shudder*
Happy Death Day?
That better?
Sean, from the dead thread, it’s under warranty, I can’t touch it without voiding it
Ah. I see.
I hope we stop at Rock City.
I wanna go to Dog N’ Suds.
Don’t know what the odds are of this passing, but PA house bill bans hollowpoints et. al. unless you volunteer to join the Governor’s personal guard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50F-7eFKr8
Hot garbage – not going anywhere, unless Dominion machines are used.
My tits are calm.
Do they like the idea of regular ball ammo going through an attacker’s body and hitting innocent bystanders? Or did they just learn about guns from Hollywood and think that hollowpoints explode like a grenade on impact and blast a human body into a reddish pulp?
They’ve succumbed to the Hun’s propaganda about the Dum-Dum bullets.
|Apparently you can be fined for not hypothesizing enough.
Now you know why all the govt scientists models predict mass death. Weather? Mass death. Flu? Mass death.
If your going to do it, you either go big dick or you go to jail.
We have similar requirements for dams. It’s part of keeping everyone safe.
16-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Solved, Revealing Stellar Missing Link
Space Smith?
|This just in: Architects masturbate just like everyone else.
Wait…did he put a fucking wall blocking most of the view? What the fuck is wrong with this guy. Up next: building a house on the beach with no windows facing the ocean.
Looks like something Speer designed for the Western Wall.
A house designed to punish the residents.
You move in, start wearing an all black wardrobe complete with beret and take up smoking Gauloises. Start conversing about the indifference of the Universe and how God is Dead.
“Karl-Heinz, you are beautiful and angular. If you were a gas, you would be… inert.“
I damn shit my shorts when that aired. SNL used to be funny back when I partook of the devil’s lettuce.
You gave up kale? Good for you!
But I thought that was a cabbage variant, not lettuce.
Exactly
If approved, the deal would revive plans to remove four massive hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River, creating the foundation for the most ambitious salmon restoration effort in history. The project on California’s second-largest river would be at the vanguard of a trend toward dam demolitions in the U.S. as the structures age and become less economically viable amid growing environmental concerns about the health of native fish.
Just use batteries.
The health of native Californians can just fuck right off.
Feature, not bug.
Didn’t Rachel Maddow gush about how great things like Hoover Dam were made when we work together?
Let’s watch the state with rolling brownouts from a shortage of power plants, and an ostensibly green ideology, blow up sustainable non-fossil-fuel power sources. Because of some fucking salmon.
I thought she was more of a Three Gorges girl.
“Rachel Maddow gush”
Phrasing!
yes
Y’all are the worst. Also, I’m not convinced she’s a woman at all.
She is a lesbian trapped in a man’s body like me. Only she also identifies as a woman.
/looks at yesterday’s mid-day post.
/looks at Mad Scientist
You alright man?
Probably?
In a belated reply to last night’s thread: I’m doing way better financially than my parents, both in relative and absolute terms. Having successfully hired a divorce attorney who fought off my ex’s team of lawyers’ attempt to seize all the joint assets for her – that helped immensely. She may have run up a six figure legal bill learning the meaning of “50-50”.
Doing better emotionally, too, since my parent’s marriage was an extended train wreck. My second marriage is going quite well. The meds help a lot. Tried to get my mother to go on some badly needed anti-depressants, but can’t teach some old dogs new tricks.
Sorry for all of that, Prole. The self-destructive rivers run deep and wide in my family history. Glad that you overcame.
Also a belated reply (seems appropriate to thread it here).
No, but that’s entirely because my fiscal prowess is borderline at best and my parents is much, much better. Conceptually I should be on par or better, but solely due to poor fiscal habits, it is not. Trying to be better (not in terrible danger, but not where I should be either), but that’s the way it is.
Mine both died basically penniless after an acrimonious divorce cost them both all of their assets and they remarried to losers later in life. They were solidly middle-class when we were kids. Dad was an Insurance Manager and Mom ran the home office part. They raised two bright but lazy losers.
It seems to me the running theme is “don’t get married”, and/or “don’t have kids,” or, if you do those things, “don’t get divorced.”
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must approve the deal. If accepted, it would allow PacifiCorp and Berkshire Hathaway to walk away from aging dams that are more of an albatross than a profit-generator
Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett, getting a sweetheart deal from the government? There’s a first time for everything, I guess.
The best part about it is that they get to shroud the obvious corporate bailout in eco and Native Rights terms. My back is getting wet. Must be raining again.
Cancer sucks. That was a very gracious act on the part of Ms. Curtis.
No, that’s just allergies. Really.
I will be eternally grateful for her sharing her rack back in the day. No matter how crazy she gets now, that doesn’t diminsh the good done in hte past.
^^^ That was indeed an eye-opening experience for stoned out of his gourd teenaged Festus. There was an audible gulp heard in the theater. Maybe even greater then the time Phoebe Cates released the girls.
Mathematical precision
The CDC updated its forecast for Covid-19 deaths earlier this week to say that “newly reported COVID-19 deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks, with 7,300 to 16,000 new deaths likely to be reported in the week ending December 12, 2020.”
In a worst-case scenario, that could mean more than 2,000 deaths per day by mid-December. In the best-case CDC estimate, that would mean the country continues to report more than 1,000 deaths per day.
Numerology.
SCIENCE!
Extrapolating that trend line, we’re all dead by dawn.
This shit is never gonna end Biden or no Biden. Hey look! A spanking new tool to do all the totalitarian stuff we’ve always wanted to do!
I’m guessing around January 20th a breakthrough will occur where the COVID deaths mysteriously plummet. In unrelated news, the 98% decline in flu deaths since March 2020 will reverse, and normal levels of flu deaths will occur.
No one will know why.
Seriously, why would they give up the perfect pretense for implementing mass control of the people? I see them hammering this home in a variety of ways and since they have no idea how economics work, they’ll have no reason to ease up on the throttle.
Agreed. There is no way this ratchet reverses.
I predict that I will be a felon within 12 months.
Sounds like Citizen Tundra already knows he needs rehabilitation.
The struggle session ain’t over until the subject confesses their wrongthink and embraces doubleplusgoodthink.
Look Cuba is basically a paradise right look at the cool cars they drive and the architecture and the healthcare.
why would they give up
Because we start driving the authoritarians from office, tar and feathering them if not hanging them?
majority of people seem to want this though.
at least till the checks stop, which than we’ll just get universal basic income and cash will be used as kindling to stay warm during the winter.
Oh look an optimist. I remember being like you once back in like May.
I watched that entire news conference yesterday and aside from Giulliani’s flop-sweat and Collins’ obvious nervousness (she referred to Biden as “President” at one point early on) it seemed pretty solid. We shall see.
How did he not know that he’d sweat that much? Dude, you’re an overweight, out of shape geezer.
They’re going to have to start coughing up actual evidence shortly. It stinks to high heaven, but so far what they’ve revealed isn’t going to be enough.
Yeah, as I’ve said before, they can only tease “BOMBSHELL” “BREAKING” “SHOCKING” “NEWS” and deliver complete meh so many times before the fake news snake they ride eats its tail, and them along with it.
Tucker Carlson called them out last night. Said he’s asked Powell to come on his show and bring some actual evidence. Supposedly she got pissed at him for asking so many times she stopped taking his calls.
Is there any reason they would be witholding evidence from the public?
If the witnesses haven’t gone through the legal channels yet. I’m guessing.
You run a serious risk of having your court case being torpedoed if you are out in the public doing PR for it. That having been said, I think that not showing up and telling Tucker that was not a good move from someone that is such a smart lawyer, and I am wondering if they have realized they can never produce enough evidence – in time – to make this stick…
And you can bet your life that if they can’t do that now, nobody will be allowed to do that later. They will claim that it is to protect the integrity of our corrupt electoral system, but the real reason is that they want to protect Biden from that.
If they can’t produce enough evidence to turn the election, they’ll be holding it out until the Biden admin begins and releasing it 2Q 2021 to try to make the next four years as hard on Biden as the last four were for Trump.
And that is precisely what the dnc operatives with bylines are trying their best to prevent. They know how effective they were against Trump, whom despite their efforts, because he was not a politician, got shit done. An asshat like Biden would end up paralyzed. Especially since the steal only got them the WH and they got bitch slapped and prison raped down ballot. The call for unity was really a request for the right to shut up and grab their ankles alread.
The call for unity was really a request for the right to shut up and grab their ankles already
And of course Romney tripped over his dropped pants in his haste to comply.
IANAL (not really, that’s gross…) but don’t they need to play some cards close to vest for an eventual Court Proceeding?
That’s what they said during the news conference. Basically, “were giving the public a taste of what we’ve uncovered, but everything will come out in court.”
Assuming they’re not bald faced lying about what they have, it’ll be interesting, but not dispositive. They can line up all the affidavits they want, but until they produce a voting machine that miscounts, ballots that are obvious copies of one another, or absentee ballots that were never requested, this is going nowhere.
Because they don’t have hard evidence that cheating occurred, since proving that old fashioned paper ballot stuffing occurred en masse is hard to do? When your “proof” of fraud is that the ovals were filled in very carefully on a lot of ballots, and that no down ballot voting occurred on said ballots – do you think SCOTUS is gonna rule that not voting sloppily and choosing to only vote for the presidential race is cause to declare those ballots invalid?
I don’t.
It is sad to watch the right engage in “statistical evidence” mongering that the left has used to promote systemic racism.
I don’t think it’s sad at all. The right has just as long a history of being disingenuous as the left.
Yeah, I suppose you could say the left learned its moralism from the right.
Yeah, I suppose you could say the left learned its moralism from the right.
Two branches of the post-millennial tent revival Progressive movement. SoCons are the descendants of the first gen progs, the social gospel branch. The modern woke progs are descendants of the second gen progs, the atheist social darwinist branch.
Neither side has changed all that much from their roots. The SoCons are at a nadir and the woke progs are ascendant again, but they’re basically fighting in the same battle space as 100-120 years ago.
The GA “audit” appears to have debunked the claim that the Dominion voting software was fudging the numbers, since the hand recount of all paper ballots resulted in only a 2,000 vote shift for Trump, still leaving him over 12K votes behind.
Now the Trump campaign is claiming that they can salvage a win if they match signatures on mail in ballots against the ones on file, proving that massive ballot stuffing occurred. I’m guessing that signature matching isn’t gonna be allowed to happen by the GA SoS.
I am curious as to why the GA SOS is so opposed to actually examining the ballots. Isn’t that worth investigating?
Except that some counties “hand recounted” by feeding the ballots right back into the Dominion machines.
Yes. Not an actual audit, just a recount.
More like a replay.
Was it an actual legitimate hand recount, or did they just feed the ballots through the machines again?
I’ve heard conflicting stories on that.
Yeah the fraud, if there is election swinging level of fraud and not just legal ballot harvesting, is to be found in auditing the millions of mail in ballots.
We know for a fact that dead people voted in multiple states, that nonagenarians registered to vote at a higher rate than all previous elections in PA, that the rate of rejected mail in ballots was lower than last year despite there being ten times as many ballots.
Which is why I see most of this stuff as a MAGA grift. The evidence is gone, at this point. There’s no way there’s locked rooms in Detroit, Philly, Milwaukee, and Atlanta full of thousands of fradulent mail-in ballots.
They are going to get away with it, because no one can hold them accountable. Remember, Trump is alone, he is an outsider. Bob Barr is an institution guy, he’s far more comfortable as a Fox News contributor in a Biden administration than as the Attorney General in a second Trump administration.
I think they have provided far more evidence than is usually required to set off numerous federal and state investigations. Private law firms do not prosecute wrong doing, that is done by the feds or state cops.
True, but they need the “Kraken” now.
Wasn’t Kraken a mythical creature?
A very tasty rum.
Canada’s already released it.
That’s pretty awesome.
I think they’ve got nothing actionable. The Dominion thing Georgia proved is a bust.
I think there was illegal ballot curing on mail in ballots but they’re already in the process of losing all those cases having lost most of them already.
The rest is not significant enough to change anything.
I thought so too. They have hundreds of sworn affidavits attesting to the election fraud under penalty of perjury. They have an affidavit from a Dominion whistle blower. The released voting counts from Edison show, in black and white right there for anyone to see, that the electronic counts are clearly rigged (assuming this data is not manipulated).
Of course the veracity of this evidence needs to be proved beyond a doubt, but in what world have they not shown enough evidence to at least support an investigation and a day in court.
I’ve yet to see anyone show that the electronic ballot data numbers are fabricated. Or that the hundreds of sworn affidavits by American citizens across multiple states are either 100% fabricated or sworn under duress. I assume this could easily be done if they faked the affidavits and ballot counts.
I hope you’re right actually.
I just am skeptical of everything and everyone and that includes Republicans.
UNMUTUAL
South Australia’s drastic six-day coronavirus lockdown was triggered by a “lie” to contact tracers from a man who tested positive and restrictions across the state are set to be lifted much sooner than first planned, authorities said on Friday.
The shock announcement came just two days after the state government ordered people to stay at home and shut many businesses to combat what was considered a highly contagious outbreak of coronavirus.
South Australia state Premier Steven Marshall told a media conference in Adelaide that one man at a pizza bar tied to the outbreak told contact tracers he had only bought a pizza there, when he had actually worked several shifts at the food outlet alongside another worker who tested positive.
Authorities assumed the man, who wasn’t named, had caught the virus during a very short exposure, leading them to believe the strain must be highly contagious.
——-
“I think it is stating the obvious to say that this person’s actions has had a devastating impact on our community,” said Stevens. “The hardship is not lost on us.”
Stevens said a team reviewing information provided by the man to contract tracers wasn’t satisfied with “the feeling they got from this.” Stevens would not be drawn on the man’s likely motivation for misleading contact tracers.
What possible motivation could he have had? No one knows.
And, of course, they will be closely examining the issue of penalties for lying to contract tracers.
Sounds like a public health official who should be drawn.
TOP. MEN.
Why did they spurn my greatness?
“My very presence in the White House,” Obama recounts, “triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted.”
Or maybe a lot of people just thought you were a nonentity, spouting vapid platitudes as you preened and strutted about the stage.
They sensed a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices had cried out at once, and then were silenced?
What a glorious silence that would be, alas, we just get continued, low-grade whining.
It’s Trump’s presence in the White House that triggered a deep-seated panic.
Eeeew. Hope they wiped.
Don’t you guys have those fancy terlits?
I wonder sometimes if he actually believes that, or if he is just the cynical opportunist I believe him to be.
He doesn’t actually believe in anything except getting people to fawn all over him.
Could say the same thing about Trump, except he doesn’t care if you like him or dislike him, any attention is good attention. Such a shame that he managed to ruin a good thing by being so damn abrasive to so many people. I know some folks liked him because he “spoke the truth” or at least said things no politician would say before, but he shot himself in the foot by being such an ass.
Obama and his fans so lacking in introspection that they can’t understand why people would repudiate him in favor of an ass like Trump. This whole system is sick beyond measure.
^ This guy gets it.
Politics is where we institutionalize our least dangerous sociopaths, and then hand them the keys to the largest killing machine in human history.
sure but I’m of the belief it take a caustic asshole like Trump to even breakthrough the two party system. We had a real guy in Ron Paul and he couldn’t break through because he was unable to be a complete unrelenting caustic narcissist it took to win the republican primary. The good new is now that trump did it it’s more likely some outside the box thinkers can get in.
And there we have it – the undying myth that that Great Outsider will set all right.
It will never happen. It shouldn’t even be a dream – that one holy man can bring light and justice to our system. [Because this is what Obama supporters believed too.]
yeah I mean that’s were I’m sort of at with it as well, but one has to fantasize about something sometime.
I don’t agree. Playing nice would’ve earned him zero brownie points from anyone else.
I’m not saying play nice. I’m saying get shit done and don’t rub it in 50% of the faces in the country. It’s certainly possible to make the policies Trump made, have all the positive effects, and not to constantly dare the media to chop you down. He could have boiled the swamp frog slowly with the same effect, but he chose to drop them right in the hot water.
I just hope they flipped the cushions after the Clinton administration.
My first job out of college was doing nuclear reactor safety analysis. Kind of like the scenarios in the Arizona story.
We had simulation software and would do scenarios…what if this sticks open. Okay, run software. What if it sticks open AND this happens. Run another sim. Etc, etc.
Only it was 1991 and the simulations might take a few days to run each.
Did you ever utter the words “3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.”?
I just hope he wrote out one report with the radiation dose measured in bananas.
I’m guessing around January 20th a breakthrough will occur where the COVID deaths mysteriously plummet. In unrelated news, the 98% decline in flu deaths since March 2020 will reverse, and normal levels of flu deaths will occur.
No one will know why.
I’m not buying it. We already have Foochy, et al, rushing out the talking point that having vaccine isn’t enough; we all need to continue our offerings to the plague gods. Masks, shelter in place, none of it can end.
IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. ONLY WE KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU.
What?
Reporter to Biden: “How do you justify not taking legal action” against Trump for not starting transition?
Biden: “I’m going to — we’re going to impose the — we’re going to enforce the — excuse me, employ the defense, reconstruct the act, to be able to go out there and dictate companies build and do following things.”
Everything’s fine
Is this parody?
It’s November 20, 2020 and still the stupidest year.
JFC, that was real! Thought for sure it was the Bee.
We are so hosed.
That sound you hear is the incoming 25th Amendment drone.
Does it make that terrifying Kamala cackle? That would be awesome!
“How do you justify not taking legal action” against Trump for not starting transition?”
Uh, maybe because the Electoral College hasn’t voted yet and there’s no legal action to be taken?
Oh yeah? Well I’m rubber and you’re spoo……
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1329602652951351297
Is it wrong that I want to see saber and lance wielding horse cavalry disperse all of these chucklefucks?
No. It’d be like me calling my wife a cunt after she called me a dick.
I think she said nagger.
Straff, you one cray-cray crakka
Good morning, Mad!
Lockdown 2.0 starts at midnight. I have a busy day of patronizing businesses that may be gone after this one.
I hope the perpetrators of this bullshit get bone cancer and enjoy a ridiculously slow and painful death.
Is that wrong?
By the way, how’s the little car? Mine is shrouded and stored. Sad!
I hope you all have a great day!
I have a small glimmer of hope here in Ohio. The state legislature passed a bill that strips the governor and health department of mandating quarantines or orders for anyone who hasn’t tested positive for a disease (that DeWine’s going to veto, but there may be votes to overturn). The local rags are starting to post stories questioning if the idiotic curfews will make any change. A group of Cleveland independent restaurants launched a campaign (#WeCantClose), and the Ohio Craft Beer Association put out a letter decrying the shutdowns and pointing out that brewers know sanitation (it got picked up in the national beer geek circles).
I hope the override passes
I am shocked that there are movements to not close. That’s definitely courageous. That kind of stuff would get get a #cancelled in my county.
If the override doesn’t pass, then I have a feeling the turncoat will be hounded and harassed (it passed with 20 votes, the exact number of votes needed to overturn the veto).
It also helped to provide a list of businesses that go on my preferred list for eating out.
Yeah, our legislature also passed (by veto-proof majority) a rebuke to the governor. Turns out it wasn’t veto-proof after all – the fucking scumbags.
The little car is running! Suspension is restored all the way around and the brakes are working again. I still need to sort out which Lucas demon is causing the brake lights to stay dark, but she’s otherwise ready to drive!
Awesome!
I grounded the bulb holders to the body and there was light!
That shitty pot metal of the assembly doesn’t cut it.
I’ll keep that in mind when I’m troubleshooting it later today. Thanks!
Extrapolating that trend line, we’re all dead by dawn.
If every single American over the age of 70 had already died, they would not believe it necessary account for it in the model or alter the trend line.
I’m posting this one more time just because I think it’s awesome.
https://twitter.com/xXshink3nXx/status/1329506814350733313
Confirmed.
Awesome.
Whatever you posted, it’s not showing up on my computer. Is there something I need to add/disable in Firefox to read whatever that was?
It’s just a twitter link. Should show up.
Showed up in Brave, but not Firefox. Go figure.
Though this link happened to be good, your browser automatically blocking Twitter is actually a great service.
Crazy bitch! and guitars!
Those are two of your favorite things?
That is fantastic!
I think Biden will nominate Stephanie Kelton, evangelist for Modern Monetary Theory, to be Treasury Secretary. The U S Mint will order sodium cooled printing presses, and Boeing will get a sweet contract for heavy lift helicopters to dump the money out of.
^^^ #NotTheBee
Talking point, ho!
Levine on Thursday said she had no specific dates, including exactly when batches will arrive in Pennsylvania, when enough state residents will be vaccinated to end the COVID-threat, and when Pennsylvanians will finally be done with things including wearing face masks and restrictions on businesses.
“We anticipate we’re going to be rolling this out through the winter and then into the spring and into the summer. It could take a significant amount of time to immunize everyone in Pennsylvania. I anticipate we’re going to be wearing masks well into 2021, maybe to the end of 2021,” she said.
Those masks aren’t going anywhere, you chumps.
Fuck off
No.
Plus you don’t have to immunize everyone, you fucking asshole.
I’m not getting it.
We have to trust the science, and by “trust” I mean completely ignore the actual science .
The masks are intended to be permanent on account of the Great Reset, comrade.
That insipid piece of shit can’t be kicked out of the commonwealth fast enough.
A lot of extraordinary claims made. I hope they have extraordinary, mythical creature level evidentiary proof.
I need to know who that thicc honey-blonde girl that can’t stop smirking behind Rudi is.
She is sassy.
I’m getting a good seat on Mount Olympus to watch this battle of the ages.
Got my popcorn. This is going to flop or be one of the most epic episodes in American history.
“This just in: Architects masturbate just like everyone else.”
Yeah, but this is the equivalent of enjoying scat or snuff films. Do they design anything good anymore or do they just enjoy desecrating Notre dame cathedral?
“If you don’t like your Piss Christ you don’t need to keep your Piss Christ!” (Paraphrasing, a little).
I realize it is theater, but do these cuntes really not see/hear themselves?
“You’re all undermining the Democratic election! Every one of you!”
Reporters scream at @VP and the coronavirus task force following the latest update.
They’re on the right side of history.
I wish everyone that said that was on the wrong side of the grass.
I would be so tempted to reply “calm your tits, sweetcheeks.”
I would die if Pence said that.
Evidence of massive fraud to rig and steal a presidential election = apparently not undermining democracy.
Not the Bee.
With COVID-19 cases rising, Grand Canyon University is encouraging students to stay on campus through Thanksgiving break. …
For less than 30 bucks, students are sending giant cutouts to their families they can’t see over the holiday.
This is what brainwashing looks like in the 21st century.
No parent wants a fucking cutout of their kid at the table. Only a university could infantilize their students enough to convince them that it was a good idea.
I dunno. If that were my kid, I would.
Take pictures of them in embarrassing situations and threaten to send the pics to the GF/BF you wish they would dump.
Were the ginat cutouts sanitized, or are they another coofvector?
At the college where my brother is a professor they aren’t having a Thanksgiving break and in exchange they are moving finals up by a week to give a longer Christmas break. The idea is to minimize the number of times the students go home and back.
Since Q is apparently taking the morning off:
https://thechive.com/2020/11/17/100-seductive-reasons-why-the-world-aint-all-that-bad/
or
https://archive.is/bfy2r
#15 seems to be … cold
More losses to good food here in Cleveland. Michael Symon is closing all but two of his restaurants (Mabel’s and one location of the B-Spot). The longest running of them (Lola’s) was open for 23 years.
Isn’t Lola’s his flagship. Or has he switched it up? Its the restaurant biz, 23 is a long time anyway.
Lola was the flagship. It’s now closed. In the article he says they had the option of trying to keep two of their places open and make it through, or keep all five open, and close them all.
Mabel’s is a BBQ place, and B-Spot is a burger place, both are more well suited to take-out/delivery then Lola’s.
the next three months are going to be restaurant and brick and mortar Armageddon.
We’ve also now got a bunch of places announcing they’re closing for the duration of the Cuyahoga county stay-at-home order. Grog Shop, B-Side, and the Beachland (all concert venues/bars owned by the same group); Market Garden (restaurant only, they’re ramping up their canning lines; they own another brewery and two other restaurants in the same area, no word on the); Nighttown (old landmark restaurant/bar); and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Whelp, Dr. Bonnie of the Guidance Councilor Voice and Cute Shoes (PBUH)has just mandated nearly everything bad about every lock-down in the the States. I had to pretend to wear the mask at the store tonight. My glasses started fogging up so I couldn’t read the doo-dad. Fuck it. I’m going bare back. I literally could not breathe properly. Masks in all indoor public spaces, banning travel between cities, shutting down Church services and family gatherings. Sure, Costco and Wal-mart are still open. For now.
Just pull it down below your nose. That’s what half of the poll workers I saw during the election were doing.
Put the mask on, then twist the loop over you ear by one flip on each side. This results in a great big fold on both sides of the mask where most of your breath goes, instead of fogging your glasses.
Actual, useful information, thanks.
That’s how I do it when forced to wear that veil, and I tell people that give me shit to eat shit.
I wear mine as a chin diaper. It barely covers my mouth. No fogging, no breathing issues, easy removal when I’m in the vestibule.
the mesh thong is my preference
That’s what I wear indoors when visiting my girlfriends…
…and nothing else, right?
Boots made from albino alligator skin, a belt with a buckle saying “COCKY”, and a cowboy hat…
I tell her to stick em up while pointing my “weapon” at her…
just don’t wear one. Some things are worth dieing over.
the bars closing at 10 pm is another one. Fucking empires have been toppled for less.
That’s better advice than spitting in some random Karen’s eye.
” Sure, Costco and Wal-mart are still open. For now.”
This is encroaching fascism for real. Government and corporations basically mandated where you can shop.
Which one of you drunks left your voting machine behind the bar?
I suspect it tastes and smells like sulfur and brimstone.
A Kentucky ice cream parlor known for naming its treats after people in the news has introduced a flavor named after Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: Kamala Pecan.
Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream said in a Facebook post last week that the company had been planning to call a limited-time treat Caramel Pecan, but decided to change the name after Harris was elected vice president.
Owner Toa Green said that the flavor is not a political statement, but intended to be a “celebration for women everywhere, especially women of color, who are getting their seat at the table that so many have fought for before us.”
“As an Asian American, 1/2 of an interracial marriage, and the daughter of immigrants, seeing that my story and the story of so many other women in this country could look like this, means more to me than I could ever express,” Green said.
Should have named it Biden Her Time.
sulfurfire**gets coffee*
Tastes like Willy Brown?
So, salted caramel?
bacon grease
We had to fuck our way to the top, but we got there on our own merits.
Technically, that would b e true. Not necessarily the merits most people are looking for.
Certainly the merits Willie Brown was looking for.
Sure, buy a pint, bring it home and when you open the lid an eldritch light emits from the container! You try to resist but the Kamala is too strong! The Kamala IcedScream latches onto your nethers and sucks you into cold, black oblivion.
THE END
(START OVER?)
JFC
I would hope that the new flavor is some sort of swirl.
But I bet the Woke Brigade would be out for blood if it was.
“That person has several superficial traits which mean pretty much nothing, and, look at me, I have a couple of those same superficial traits!”
Toa Green comes across as an insufferable twit….sure, naming your product after a politician is not a political statement. Bonus point for sharing your perceived ranking on the intersectionality totem pole of oppression.
Ha! She owns a business, she sinks to the bottom as an unclean exploiter of labor!
“As an Asian American, 1/2 of an interracial marriage, and the daughter of immigrants”
Yeah honey no Asian-American chick has ever married a white guy before. You’re a real fucking trailblazer.
I’d bet none of them have a clue who Bobby Jindal or Nikki Haley are, either.
But those are the bad minorities!
Ufda, this guy is going to be in for some big time shit, but I like his style.
A fat cat CEO who is not bowing and scraping to the Holy Mask? GET HIM!!!
The comments are telling.
Comments? I don’t need to go to the comments to get all the opinion I need. I can just read the objective unbiased journalism in that story.
HE’S NOT A DOCTOR!!!
*Proceeds directly to the Sanford Health careers page…*
…and they got nothing for me
I imagine they will have nothing for the CEO by Christmas for the CEO too.
an untruthful message that I am susceptible to infection or could transmit it
And yet you potentially are and can. Wear a mask or not, but be a man and just say no rather than using bullshit reasoning to defend your choice.
lol “who is not a doctor”.
I’m so excited about these new vaccines! Since March, all we’ve heard about is that nothing will go back to normal until we have a vaccine. And now we have two!
Wait, why are you laughing?
“Two! Two! Two cures in one!” Morans.
The FDA won’t approve them though.
They’re waiting for Biden to come to power, apparently.
We need a Biden Vaccine, not a Trump Vaccine. It can’t come out while Trump is in office.
I have heard that someone who works for a local children’s hospital said they were probably getting the vaccine the first week of December.
Take that however you will …
Yeah. I don’t think they’re going to be able to slow walk this to Biden.
And anyway, Biden will get credit. The numbers of sick won’t drop for awhile anyway.
My internal sources confirm first week of December.
When are they releasing the kraken?
“Not p until q” is not equivalent to “if q then p”, for the record.
The president and CEO of one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems says he won’t be wearing a mask at work because he’s recovered from COVID-19, and doing so would only be a “symbolic gesture” because he considers himself immune from the virus.
Why does the media allow these anti-SCIENCE know-nothings to spout their superstitious drivel?
All good boys and girls listen to Saint Foochy, and scrupulously obey the Doctrines of Public Safety.
See my other quote above. The journalo who wrote the article made sure to point out to the readers that this guy IS NOT A DOCTOR!
He isn’t even a public health official.
“he considers himself immune from the virus”.
He *is* 99.9% likely to be immune to the virus. According to experts.
All these stories about “re-infection,” are these “re-infections” from 40 cycles of the PCR test? Because someone who is immune is perfectly capable of testing positive in such a scenario.
?
I’m literally asking, because I don’t know. Everything suggests that contracting this virus and recovering provides, at the very least, substantial amounts of immunity from the virus for a substantial period of time. If this has somehow been shown not to be true, I’d like to know. Because it’s important.
No this virus is different because it allows the power-hungry to arrogate more power to themselves than anyone ever imagined. There is no cure for that.
I’ve had the chickenpox twice.
No virus has ever demonstrated absolute immunity to reinfection. It’s only a question of what the rate is, and so far, the rate for COVID appears to be statistical noise.
“All” these stories of re-infection amount to like 5 stories. And frequently, they wind up being nonsense.
But it’s true that you can literally get any disease more than once. It’s just incredibly rare. But when you’re talking about millions of people it will absolutely happen.
But having him wear a face mask to prevent this astronomical event is fucking stupid.
Influenza reinfection rates are far higher than anything suggested so far for COVID. IIRC, the study they did in Tristan da Cunha back in the seventies suggested it could be as high as 30% in a captive population.
A few instances of reinfection spread across millions of cases is nothing.
To top off the shit sandwich with a Dairy Queen curl e cue we had yet another “white powder incident” at work last night. Hooray! Twenty people sitting evenly spaced in the lunchroom whilst two firehalls, the ambulance service and five cop cars respond. They send in the hazmat team and they sound like deep sea divers. Huh. It was a bag of flour again. I think the employees actually groove on the difference from the routine. Twenty people in a room and mostly silence. We were all on our phones. At least this time is was over fairly quickly, last time it was two hours and I grabbed my phone but forgot my readers.
So how bout all those NBA trades?
The what now?
Josh Richardson and Seth Curry switched teams I’ll have ya know
So, are they gay or straight now? Not that I particularly care, but you seem invested.
yes
The only trade that matters is the one where they trade social signaling for viewers.
Stop trying to make the NBA happen.
never
We had a really inspiring discussion on Resistance TV last night about socialism in the 21st century with @BenjaminNorton
@citizentommy
and @TheMendozaWoman
If you missed it, you can watch it now using this link:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1329349226942312449
“One of the biggest myths, for me, is that socialism has failed.”
“The biggest myth for me is that [socialism] is authoritarian. I find that laughable, when people are living under capitalism, that they consider socialism authoritarian!”
BBC Radio 1 will not play the original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics.
The station said young listeners were particularly sensitive to derogatory terms for gender and sexuality.
It will instead play an edited version with different lyrics sung by MacColl.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54999375
You scum bag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot!
They tried this a couple years back, and there was an outpouring of support for the original lyrics. I would link the song here, but it’s a week too early for that.
Don’t forget about the old slut on junk.
Lyin’ dere almost dead on a drip in dat bed ?
“One of the biggest myths, for me, is that socialism has failed.”
Checks out.
I can’t help but to want these idiots murdered. Or at least exiled.
Pinochet was truly a moderate.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe a lie like this one? If 100 years where somewhere north of 3 billion people lived in countries that were virtual prisons while some 120 million of these people trapped in these prison states were killed by the marxists and another 60 million by the fascists (yeah, they are socialists too) doesn’t convince you this ideology can’t be anything but totalitarianj in nature and that misery is the only thing it can deliver universally, what the fuck will it take? And extinction level event?
If socialists actually believed their own bullshit, they would move to socialist nations.
Many I know are trying to move to Canada or Scandinavian countries (which aren’t really that socialist in the grand scheme of things, but maybe a bit more so).
Turns out it’s not that easy.
Of all the amusing things I see on Lefty Internet, the funniest is probably immigration. They are straight up delusional about other countries immigration policies. They seem to genuinely believe that all of their favorite Good Countries are these super welcoming to immigrants, that you just move there and voila you’re rolling in free college and generous welfare benefits.
Also, their “free college” scheme means only academic elites get the free college (which is less prestigious than an American university).
Here, literally anyone can go to any school they want with the only stipulation that they pay back the money later at incredibly reasonable terms… and our system is considered the elitist one? Um no.
I wonder how some snowflakes would react being told in the 8th grade they are not on a college track
Yeah in much of Europe, as far as I can tell, they filter out the kids at 14, 15, 16 and split them into white collar and blue collar tracks. Which might not be a terrible idea on a macro scale, but it’s absolutely taking teenagers and seriously constricting their future at a very young age.
They don’t actually want Europe’s system.
They want a system of totally free college for everyone.
Which will almost certainly have the effect of making college another 4 years of overpriced and worthless public school.
The U.S. has the worst “high school” in the world (ostensibly) but also the highest educated people and the best higher education.
In other words, it would take the best thing about American education and make it the worst thing about American education.
It will also not reduce costs, of course. It will increase them even more but spread them out more unjustly.
So, it’ll work exactly as planned.
This was even worse:
“The biggest myth for me is that [socialism] is authoritarian. I find that laughable, when people are living under capitalism, that they consider socialism authoritarian!”
lol. What’s authoritarian about “capitalism”? Please do tell.
The Man makes you get up and go to work. If you don’t obey him, he punishes you by not giving you stuff.
If I don’t work, I don’t get money. This is NOT fair. /dumbfucking leftists
wage slavery
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
100% guarantee that their criticisms would be levied at the homeopathic fascism of our system and not at either of the pillars of free market capitalism: property ownership and freedom of economic choice.
Granted, you scratch an anti-fascist and you eventually fine a commie who hates private property ownership and freedom of economic choice.
It’s impossible to overstate Obama’s hypocrisy. This neoliberal war criminal had the gall to criticize Brazil’s beloved leftist leader Lula (the most popular president in Brazilian history), accusing him of what Obama himself is guilty of
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1329185561807097862
I love that word neoliberal, it immediately tells me to ignore whatever this person is saying.
I think it is finally pickle time. It is amazing how good pickled cauliflower is compared to how disgusting cooked cauliflower is.
Maybe you are cooking it wrong.
nope I ate it cooked in many ways and also in restaurants. It is shit. boiled steamed deep fried pureed and any other way
With cheddar cheese on top?
cauliflower with melted cheese on top was one of my dads favorite foods. hated it myself
Dinner at my childhood friend’s house inveriably meant Velveeta and salad shrimp over rice… still turns my stomach thinking about it.
Dairy and seafood?! (Filet O’Fish the exception.)
Toxteth:
The Tuna Noodle Casserole and Tuna melt wave hello.
Fair enough.
Even roasted?
in the oven? yes
Toss in oil. Roast.
nope
Three States, two graphs
I was comparing SC and KY and needed a third state to reach the point in my brain. Choose IL.
The obvious thing to me is that KY cases now isn’t really higher than SC in the summer of IL in the spring, it is just that testing has increased over time. However, KY is about to get a peak in deaths in the next month, it is hard to see on that graph, but when isolated, KY is on the upswing of their exponential death growth a few weeks lagging the case increase.
Is there data somewhere to feed a trend of median age of deaths, hospitalizations, infections?
CDC had deaths by age. NO idea on the others. I also don’t know if it trends.
The CDC stats are the worst and the latest usually. They suck.
The Ohio dashboard appears to have the ability to drill down by age and case/hospitalization/death as well as limit by county and/or confirmed/probable cases.
I can’t help but to want these idiots murdered.
I want to see them naked and freezing, battling ferociously over a scrap of bread.
Three hundred and fifty million green jelly beans in a pile, next to two hundred fifty thousand blue jelly beans in a pile.
Contrast and compare.
If someone could actually demonstrate this visually, it would be interesting.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8969561/Demi-Rose-goes-jaw-dropping-glam-racy-bodysuit.html
How much is she paying you?
Hope the fucker has co morbidities.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnRq9qWXEAMReAE?format=jpg&name=900×900
Well, he is old and obese, perhaps diabetic.
With that attitude, the fat fuck is going to put a lump of coalvid in your stockings.
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, my daily auction notices are piling up with restaurant equipment liquidations.
See any slicers?
Oooh! Yeah, any slicers or Salamanders?
Second that. I need me a good restaurant quality circular blade slicer.
The Lightbringer hath spoken. May his wisdom be ever embraced.
“Look, Joe Biden’s going to be the next president of the United States,” he said. “Kamala Harris will be the next vice president. I have been troubled like I think every American, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat or Independent, should be troubled, when you start having attempts to block, negate, overturn the people’s vote when there’s no actual evidence that there was anything illegal or fraudulent taking place.”
“These are just bald assertions,” Obama continued. “They’ve been repeatedly rejected by the courts. And I think I’m less surprised by Donald Trump doing this. You know, he has shown only a flimsy relationship to the truth. I’m more troubled that you’re seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it, not because they actually believe it, but because they feel intimidated by it, and the degree to which you’ve seen some news outlets that cater to the right and the conservative viewpoint somehow try to prop up these bogus claims.”
I’m kinda surprised that even Barry thinks Biden somehow garnered 10 million more votes across the country than he did because Barry is like the best evar and he knows it.
“when there’s no actual evidence…”
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
This fucking guy…
Hey, Barry knows the truth when his sycophants slobber it all over him.
But enough about the Russian collusion hoax…
Disney Star Wars Mandalorian BOOB ARMOR: What’s the problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQi5Sq1hoGY
I very much enjoy that show. It’s the one thing I actually can’t wait to watch. This is exhibit #23,396,996 that people can always find something to complain about.
I’m even thinking about watching it, and I’m the guy who only likes the original trilogy and considers the rest of the Star Wars movies to be horrible mistakes that are best not discussed.
Me too.
I liked the first season and am letting the second queue up.
It’s the most Space Western Space Western that ever Space Westerned.
Rewatching ep 3 last night, I am trying to justify in my brain the existence of that many bounty hunters. Doesn’t seem realistic.
I don’t think they are all bounty hunters, but a religious order that sometimes bounty hunts.
I just realized you mean all the non mandalorians. But the galaxy should have quadrillions of citizens and if even .01 percent have a bounty, that’s a lot of work.
Sure, but they all wouldn’t be gathered in one end of the galaxy in a bar on one outcast planet. I realize that area of the galaxy is basically without law, the new Republic hasn’t spread everywhere (and even under the Empire, places like Tattoine weren’t really under Imperial control), but it seems like a lot of hunters. Plus, in Ep 1, there wasn’t a lot of work to go around.
Nope. Wrong. It’s incredibly realistic. Just like everything else about the show.
I don’t think the concept of light speed/hyperspace is realistic either feel like their scale for their galaxy is all wrong.
they are doing more monsters of the week this season and I love every second of it.
If you play knights of the old republic, the krayt dragon episode was full of Easter eggs
“It’s the most Space Western Space Western that ever Space Westerned.”
False.
Firefly?
Yep.
https://tenor.com/view/firefly-losing-side-malcolm-reynolds-mal-may-have-been-on-the-losing-side-gif-15803649
I can see that argument.
Captain Kirk… would like… to have… a WORD!
As would Spike Spiegel.
The Mandalorian is better than than that other schlock. It is worth watching. I am rewatching season 1 now before watching season 2. Finished Ep 3 last night — The Sin.
It ends with a great line: “I’ve got to get me one of those.”
We joked at work (pre-covid) about going to a meeting, making a statement, finishing with “I have spoken”, then get up and leave the room.
WORKS FOR ZARDOZ!
I agree with you Akira. I at best tolerate anything other than the original trilogy. To me The Mandalorian has the same look and feel of the original trilogy. It has a lot of the same character “races”. And much like the Netflix Daredevil series, the conflicts are smaller scale, not “the fate of the universe depends on this!” The whole thing is run by Jon Favreau, who is part of my generation and grew up on the original trilogy. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
And it seems Favreau has been able to stem Kathleen Kennedy from putting her fuckery fingers on the writting too.
This season has been better than the first so far. I love the throwback western feel it has to it.
Timothy Olyphant playing Raylon Gibbons in a SW Universe was awesome
also is man in mandalorian sexist?
It’s so you know which of the characters are the woman even with the masks on.
Also, the Mandalorian breastplate design since Boba Fett is much smaller than traditional medieval armor and is a segmented armor which allows for more flexibility.
/nerd
I feel like a society with blasters should be liberated from full body armor.
And its Katee Sackhoff for God’s sake, let me enjoy her boob armor.
“Vatican demands an explanation from Instagram after Pope Francis’s account liked a photo of a Brazilian model dressed as a schoolgirl”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8969923/Vatican-demands-answers-Instagram-Popes-model-photo-like.html
I saw that and lol’ed.
What’s disappointing, though, is that almost certainly the pope’s social media is not run by His Holiness himself.
I didn’t know HM was Catholic.
the pope is argentinian he would not like a brazilian
So just a bit of manscaping or full 70’s?
Burt Reynolds on a shag rug.
He’s a man and fallible. He likes to pretend that he’s not a #toobin like the rest of us poor schmucks.
It hasn’t even been presented in court yet, you cunte. Put ‘D’ next to your name already.
He really is – and Tucker has become cunty too. I’m not a lawyer but pretty sure I wouldn’t be laying out my key evidence on national tv prior to presenting it in court. Maybe they have a smoking gun like those servers, maybe not.
I dunno. I think Tucker may be right about this. We’ll see.
I agree. Either file charges or shut up. How many times can you says “bombshell” and then delivery a giant fart and expect people to give you have credibility.
Rudy can’t file charges anymore because hes just a private citizen, and there’s no fucking way that three weeks after the Election the evidence is still sitting around.
The steal, if indeed there was a steal, was in the mail in ballots, and there’s no fucking way that those four big blue cities will ever allow a handpicked team of MAGA lawyers to run a signature matching audit on those. The envelopes are gone, it’s just gonna be a big stack of facially valid ballots and the SC is not going to strike those down even though every single thing we know about American elections shows just how much bullshit this result is.
Sitting Presidents do not pick up millions of voters, win House seats, win governorships, win Florida and Ohio, win bellwether counties, win state legislative seats, and then lose the election. It doesn’t happen. If you hit 20 three times in a row, and the dealer hits 21 three times in a row, you’re not sitting at an honest table.
With all these state gains, Republicans need to make sure mail-in balloting is carefully controlled, henceforth.
It is really obvious that in blue areas those ballots were illegally cured and we’re talking about 100,000 vote gain in PA from that alone. In fact, they even admitted it but argued (successfully) there was no proof it benefitted Democrats (note: it did).
I feel like the only 2 rational choices left to me are either a: ignore politics and unregister to vote or b: get more involved in politics and try to effect change from within. I’m not sure which route I’m going to take yet.
Ignoring politics is always the most rational thing to do, which is proof that I’m not rational.
“With all these state gains, Republicans need to make sure mail-in balloting is carefully controlled, henceforth.”
They will try, they will be screeched at as racists, their children will be doxxed, and then they will fold.
I just don’t see how the GOP can win a national election if every single year the leftist controlled bureaucracy gets to print out millions of ballots and send them out into the wild. You don’t need a conspiracy, you don’t need a mastermind. You just need a college student in Madison to get 7 ballots in her mailbox from all the kids who used to live in her apartment. You just need a postal union member to be in charge of disposing 300 returned mail in ballots. You just need an army of dedicated activists who will “help” the sick, the lame, and lazy vote the right way.
There’s not a mustache twirling mastermind, there’s not some OPPLAN: RAIDER binder in the offices of Democrats around the country. When you remove every single barrier to a clean election you can, and you demonize the Orange Man, then you create a situation where people honestly believe they are lying and cheating for a greater good.
Republicans need to make sure mail-in balloting is carefully controlled, henceforth
One of the downplayed points and I think more interesting points Powell made during the conference was that the election fraud isn’t just limited to Dems and that the Republicans are involved too. It’s weighted more towards Dems but her argument is that this a larger ruling class swamp issue.
It moves this from a MY TEAM issue to a larger DC corruption issue and the parasites that feed off those politicians.
I just checked the KY state house races, as I am not there, I didnt follow it. But with a redisricting year, I wondered how it went. Before the Rs held a 62-37-1 advantage (the 1 was a vacancy). Now it is 73-25-2 and the 2 uncalled races look like the R will win, so 75-25.
Oof.
They also picked up 2 seats in the Senate, so it goes from 28-10 to 30-8.
The governor is a D, but I think they will be able to override a veto and district however they want. The state supreme court has limits to prevent really bad gerrymandering, but they will be able to pick the Ds apart…I could see a new district that might get Yarmuth defeating in Louisville. That is dangerous though, they might just pack Ds in his district and give it up as opposed to splitting Louisville across two districts and risk losing both.
Rachel Maddow?
He may be – but thinking they would lay out the evidence on his show prior to court was idiotic.
Tucker’s been fair. It’s time to put up or shut up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Hope she sees this bro.
America is not going to fuck you.
Bread buttered. Which side lands on the floor?
“It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President.”
My go to response for these kinds of comments: “worse than the assassination of an American citizen without due process?”
“16 year old American born citizen” to be precise.
Robert Gibbs: “He should have had a better father.”
Lovely stuff.
And he wasn’t there when his daughter needed him either. Another Trump victim.
“Christmas is Cancelled” is a worn out sit-com trope. They are actually pulling the other leg and pissing down it at this point. I don’t give two shits about Xmas personally but there are dozens or hundreds that believe it is important. Are they trying to willfully break our civilization? I think they they are flailing about.
(Good, me neither. Hackneyed music and decorations, plus red and green are clashing.)
Thinks back to art classes and the color wheel… Yeah, that stuff bored me to tears. I got almost kicked out of school when I did a charcoal sketch for a figure drawing exercise and rendered the model in the buff. Funny thing was, I was drawing from life! Imagine I’d get cancelled and hounded out of the Custodial Trades for that, nowadays.
We were supposed to draw the model fully clothed and stoned little shithead drew her naked as a jay-bird. Imagine three snickering 16 year-olds sitting around the table… It was a really good rendering and the Teacher eventually gave me a passing grade.
Tsk tsk, naughty young Festus. Did the model find out?
I was just ranting about this the other day. I think it is heartbreaking to scare families into canceling Turkey Day. I was watching some local news this week and they paraded out a bunch of people who all bent the knee and proclaimed how they were going to follow King Walz’s edicts and canceling their dinners with family.
This year being with family is doubly important because of all the depressing shit that has happened. Making people isolate now is cruel. We should be gathering to reassure each other and throw some love back and forth.
I remember the first year I was in the Marines and how lonely Turkey Day was (doubly sucked because I got stuck with the duty that day). The years after that I was always lucky (and grateful) to have some good friend in the Marines invite me to share dinner with his family.
p.s. The local news story also used this site to show how risky a T-Giving meal would be. According to SCIENCE my family has a 1/3 chance of having some Rona freak showing up and infecting everyone. If we had it back in my hometown, it would be 50%.
Yeah, I was deployed for two holiday seasons in 2003 and 2005, and they were kind of bittersweet. We had fun as a group and made the best of it, but it was still shitty to be living in a tent in a godforsaken hellhole while imagining everyone back home getting together.
In International Falls, it’s 100%!!!!
That looks like Gattica.
Still ugly and frightening and authoritarian.
Naw, Gattaca was elegant IIRC.
Yes, but still brutalist. It can be done. It just never is.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1329794274469289985
CWAA
he’s never been right about anything.
Dennis Miller is packing in his podcast soon, for anyone who likes it/him. “I am a give-up artist. I think bowing out is a statement.”
He’s a bit like Jonathan Winters was – great in small doses.
I never could pin down why I turned him off halfway through his monologue because he’s funny and his references always make me feel smart/stupid when I do/don’t catch them, but this does it.
Yep. Agreed. Back when he had his 2 or 3 hour radio show, it felt too long by half.
He meanders a lot when he speaks. Lots of cutaways but dude is fun to listen to when he goes on point.
I’m generally in favor of removing antiquated hydro electric dams; particularly if they are on large bodies of water that feed into the ocean. Before the atomic age, they had real value, however, now, they are nothing more than an eyesore that inhibit the free movement of our anadromous friends.
“Before the atomic age”
We’re still living the pre atomic age though.
Flood control and water impoundment for farming and other uses hasn’t gone away.
I might be movin’ to Olympus soon
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss
…
By myself, I wouldn’t have no boss.
But I’d be raisin’ my lonely Dennil Floss!
Are ya ridin’ a tiny little horse named “Mighty Little”?
Even though he’s a little small for the Saddle?
By myself, I wouldn’t have no boss. But I’d be raising my lonely. Dental Floss!
He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or blanket on anyway.
“California doesn’t want power generation of any kind.”
It sure seems that way. They had to shut down all the small windmills near me because they were bird blenders. They have been installing large windmills in their place, and it does seem that the raptors are back. They’ve removed all the pigeons from our roof thankfully. We came home one time to find a hawk strangling a pigeon on our lawn.
Anyway, there also have been proposals for solar farms that various greenies have opposed because they are ugly and cover a lot of land, which is true, but it sure seems that they just want electricity to appear magically.
Cuomo thinks he can replace perfectly good nukes with offshore windmills that every locality has shot down everywhere it’s been proposed.
So the nukes are going away next years with… nothing in their place.
?‍♂️
I’m sure they will find a way to blame Trump because the U.S. was out of the Paris Climate Accord for three months.
the raptors are back
This was in my front yard Summer 2018 Caught a young squirrel goofing off in the top of a tall tree.
I just had a bunch of solar panels and a big ol’ battery installed two weeks ago. So far I’ve generated 288 kilowatt hours, and the house is a bit cooler since all that sunlight is no longer hitting the roof. I like that if the grid power goes down I still have juice as long as the battery lasts (or the sun is up). Since California is now doing rolling blackouts in the summer, it’s nice to know I won’t be affected as much.
They wouldn’t need to cover acres and acres with solar panels if more people had these on their roofs. But it’s harder to centrally control everyone that way.
In my weaker moments, I like the idea of covering more roofs with solar panels just to decentralize the grid. Like you said, it would help a lot if any big disaster couldn’t knock out all the power for everyone.
The problem is that it doesn’t look like the economics make sense yet. And I sure don’t want the govt involved in planning out how to do the decentralization.
So, I’m not sure how this works, but I know I paid exactly ZERO dollars for the system on my roof and the battery. In return, I buy my power from the company that installed it, and it’ll be about $120 a month less than I’m paying Edison. And if we generate more than we use, the true-up credit at the end of the year goes to us instead of the solar panel company. I have no idea how they’re making money on this, unless it’s heavily subsidized by someone.
We have a similar setup minus the battery, so we are still vulnerable to the blackouts. I estimate that we save about $350 per year. Not huge, but not nothing. The way the net metering works, some of the energy you sell back is at a lower rate than what you are paying the solar company, so you really don’t want to get a system that is too big. It’s best to owe the utility a little money at the end of the year.
Judging by their actions I suspect the greenies are trying to force everyone to put panels on their roofs. They just don’t want to admit that it will be expensive for a lot of people.
Economics do not make sense, also producing solar panels is an actual DIRTY job. Our green friends completely forget what goes into the panels, the batteries, and what it takes to power a lot of electric “clean” goodies.
Ask Cobalt miners in Africa what they think of the green new deal.
Those dirty jobs are somewhere else. If I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
Uh boy…
https://twitter.com/TheBullwork/status/1329803019366658050
The sad part is that on first glance I can’t figure if that is satire or not.
It’s not evil enough to be true.
This -https://youtu.be/FmgJgaxvyfk is our Provincial Health Officer. Note the happiness when she realizes that we love her. We really, really love her! CWAC
Watch this and vomit – https://youtu.be/FmgJgaxvyfk
That’s Doctor Bonnie of the cute shoes. She just waylaid our economy. Isn’t she something else!
Imagine a cute shoe stomping on a human face. Forever.
A flattering rendition there: yeesh. And Fluevogs are ugly.
https://youtu.be/FmgJgaxvyfk
The media actually clapped for her. This is the woman that will put hundreds of thousands into penury and yet they focus on her shoes for a photo op. That cunte just shut down my Province. I don’t remember voting for her on the ballot. Fuck them. I’m not wearing the mask.
Because their lives weren’t shut down. That’s the thing that’s increasingly disgusting me about my fellow man. The people beating their breasts the most visibly screaming about how “compassionate” they are because they want men with guns to enforce their edicts on others couldn’t spare an iota of compassion for the people they’re destroying. They’d happily leave a trail of other people’s wreckage and death and pat themselves on the back about how noble they are between bonbons. Meanwhile the people who put time and effort out of their own lives to do something kind for their fellow man will barely acknowledge it.
That’s the thing that’s really pissing me off. The assholes who can work from home trying to shut out those who can’t (with the exception of those who will be working at the stores they want to visit, and the people delivering their shopping).
I just got a terrible case of Asthma.
I think I love her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9KGqr5Wtw
I concur.
My local GOP operative tells me that “January 21 Trump becomes a non-entity in the Republican Party.” Discuss how likely this is?
99%. He doesn’t have a base and now no future. The insiders will (or rather, already are) jockey for control and set themselves up for future advancement.
Crenshaw (eww) Kristi 2024.
He doesn’t have a base?? He has an enormous base. Can you name another figure in the GOP who can turn out tens of thousands of people at a rally?
He has fans, but he doesn’t have an actual base inside the party apparatus with people loyal to him (vs advantageous temporary allies that will bail as soon as the wind shifts). Ron Paul was more of a party insider than he is.
Noem/another hot chick just for the pillow fight!
Yeah and do you think his base will just swallow the piss of the GOP Establishment going forward?
The whole reason Trump won the primary is that he ran against the Republican Establishment. The Republican Base is done being told that they can only win if they run a squishy moderate who will grow in office.
Especially since the argument the Establishment Cucks will use is “Trump barely “lost” reelection after we spent four years stabbing him in the back and maligning him and refusing to advance his agenda.”
If you think Trump fans are going to fall back in line and vote for Nikki Haley or Ben Sasse or whoever you’re out of your mind.
I think they’ll fall back in line. The icky repub is still better than the ickier democrat to them.
Primaries are where we’ll see the change. I think the establishmentarian types will have a hard time staying on the stage.
Here’s the thing: for cycle after cycle the Republican base had a favorite, but every single time the Republican chattering classes and party hacks pushed the moderate, and every year the line was “We need someone electable who can appeal to moderate voters.” Every year, the base heard that, said “Well, they are the experts, I’m just a plumber/mechanic/businessman/cop I guess Mitt is better than Obama.”
Then came 2016, where they liked a guy, and the whole establishment hated him, and they finally said “fuck it, if we’re gonna lose again, I want to lose with a guy who fights, and who is fun and high energy and drives the conversation.” Then, despite the entire Party establishment sabotaging him for 2 straight years, he won.
You cannot unring that bell. The base now knows that they can actually pick a winner, and the establishment just picks losers. They will no longer stand for being told “we need to pick an electable moderate.” Especially since you can well fucking argue the only reason Trump “lost” in 2020 is that the establishment sabotaged him over and over again.
Remember, Reagan ran an insurgent campaign in 76, the base loved him, and the establishment never did. They ran a 3rd party Rockefeller type Republican in 1980 against him trying to split the vote and throw the election to Carter.
It’s the same old shit: the GOP establishment types would rather lose with a gentleman than win with a cad.
The first time I ever heard the “he dreams of making a beautiful concession speech” wisecrack, it was my dad talking about Bob Michel in the mid-90s. That’s who the GOP was for as long as I can remember, the party that wants to be seen as respectable, nonthreatening opposition more than it wants to actually win.
There are a lot of Trump true believers who were not reliable GOP voters prior to Trump and will not be so after Trump. There’s an opportunity there for someone unexpected to play the Trump role again. I just hope it’s someone like Noem rather than someone like Hawley or Cotton.
I’m not so sure about that. The Free Ohio Now group has gone full bore on supporting Trump even over fighting back against the lockdowns. Local news is talking about how Trump tweeting about DeWine may cause him problems when he’s up for re-election in two years (because everyone voting has such a long memory).
I can hardly wait for Mittens to decide he gets one more run. The best will be to watch all the GOP operatives wonder how they lost so badly. After all Mitt was a moderate and so much more gentlemanly than Trump.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
I think Gusty is right. He doesn’t have a real machine to operate and stay relevant. And I don’t think he has the temperament to build one either.
If Trump doesn’t act too crazy, I think that a good amount of candidates will want his endorsement in 2024. There will also be a lot who absolutely won’t want his endorsement.
Starts his own party and GOP becomes a non- entity on Jan 22?
You are probably right but at least admit that this election was so hinky that nobody will ever know who won. I get it, you hate Trump. At least admit that there was widespread voter fraud. If you call yourself an honest man, that is.
Your local GOP operative is fucking high. If he thinks the base is going to go back to being tricked into voting for the McCain’s and Mitts of the world he should think again. He sounds like a typical surrender con, eager to give beautiful concession speeches and raise taxes to pay for the Left’s latest Big Program.
If Trump doesn’t run himself in 2024, his endorsement will be key to whoever does win the nomination.
Actually, he likes Cruz for 2024. He thinks Cruz can better articulate Trump’s policies without coming across as a dick-head. Yeah, the media will try to crucify Cruz, like they did Trump, but unlike Trump he won’t spend his time fashioning his own crown of thorns and collecting large nails at every opportunity. Trump was his own worse enemy; Cruz probably not.
Trump was his own worse enemy; Cruz probably not.
Yes an no. I think the “dick-head” part was what attracted a lot of people to Trump. Here was a guy who was actually willing to get in the gutter and give their opponents as good as they got. Cruz might be able to go that way. But, it isn’t a guaranteed thing.
Yup. A lot of the NeverTrump establishment National Review types liked to snark “but he fights!” to mock Trump voters, but it was absolutely a major part of his appeal. For as long as I can remember, all a Dem or media person (but I repeat myself) had to do was scold the GOP for some supposed offense or another and the Mitt Romneys of the world would meekly act like a dog you had caught taking a shit on the carpet. Trump refused to play the role given to the GOP by the Dems and the media, and that’s the biggest reason why their hatred of him reached such heights of hysteria and lunacy.
That guy sounds right up there with Agile Cyborg in terms of insane ramblings.
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 8:34 pm
Q, I photocopied the starfish of one of my favorite female buttholes and pasted them in the millions all over super black deepness. When they fall, quincy, they will call gently and tightly on your ak-7incher and the bullets released will fire like a million new parallels and your brain will fell you like a fuckton of blizzard suns.
Nearly every fag can grow a beard.
Thanks man… I’ll remember that… 🙂
“Ted Cruz couldn’t beat Trump in a primary, thus he clearly is the best guy to win a general election” -Smart Political Operative
Ted Cruz lacks the charisma and the energy to win a Presidential race. He’s the same old Chamber of Commerce Establishment Republican that lost in 08 and 12.
“Trump was his own worse enemy”
See, I would argue Trump’s worst enemy was the Party establishment backstabbing and undermining him since the day he declared his candidacy. They voted for Hillary and Biden in huge numbers, and openly disparaged him and his platform.
Perhaps insufficiently charismatic, but Cruz is becoming sassy, e.g., questioning Jack Dorsey recently.
Hot beard on beard action! Members only!
I kind of like Cruz, but he does come off like a dickhead.
Not at all. GOPe operatives clearly haven’t gotten much more traction than the left on understanding the Trump phenomenon. There are tens of millions who have tasted the good stuff, and they’re not gonna be happy going back to the gruel the GOP has been offering for the last 30 years.
Whether or not the base will hold out for an asshole of Trump’s personality type, I dunno. I do know that turnout is going to be pathetic in 4 years if we get Dole/McCain/Romney rehashed.
“GOPe operatives clearly haven’t gotten much more traction than the left on understanding the Trump phenomenon”
It keeps coming back to class. I am not a WalMart/NASCAR/lite beer/tshirt/NCIS guy. I am a snobby, effette, urban living, craft beer drinking guy with soft hands.
But I don’t disparage those people, I don’t sneer at them, I don’t look down on them. The GOP Establishment does. They fucking hate those unwashed rednecks who vote for them, and they constantly crave the approval of their fellow educated class. They hate the people that fix the toilets, drive the semi trucks, grow the food, fight the wars, dig the ditches. It absolutely drives them crazy that their base is people who unironically enjoy Toby Keith. They wish they had Hollywood celebs and tech executives and professors on their side, more than anything.
Remember the good ole days of MNG? TRACTOR PULLZ!
I’m a soft handed, craft beer drinking, unhandy white collar worker. I’ve got nothing but respect for those who have a skill I don’t, and see no reason to look down on them.
I will give them shit for Toby Keith though.
Janitors are oftentimes more important than CEOs.
At least when you’re actually working in an office and not from home.
It’s well possible. God help the GOP and the US if he does. Where do they think his voters go without him? Do they think they’ll rally round the triumphal return of John Kasich and Mitt Romney if he’s out of the picture? The Tea Parties look like they’re pretty much spent. There’s been too much compromise, too many insider games (to be fair, some demanded by Trump), to draw much excitement. A debate between a left that’s confident of its righteousness and a right that basically agrees with them, but doesn’t want to go there so quickly, is going to be won by the left. Trump proved the GOP can be relevant outside its traditional base. But, it actually matters if they’ve got an argument to make.
The Republican Party without Trump will be as relevant as the GOP in MA. 72+ million people who cast their votes for Trump are Trump voters not GOP voters. Not surprising that GOP operatives hate that.
I don’t think it’s quite done yet.
You might not know it but the MA governor is a Republican. Now, many Democrats actually like him and vote for him probably because he is more of a sensible Democrat–by MA standards.
I live in a nation full of wet-wipes. Nothing south of the border means much. We lost our quasi first amendment the same year that I finished high school.
since SSD had me going down the AC rabbit-hole:
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 10:15 pm
America, love, is as naughty as my pinkie toe. America pretends to be naughty but she’s a goddamn bipolar sad condition, man. She’s tripping on the past while trying to embrace the future while dying in the present.
The man is a genius.
My local GOP operative tells me that “January 21 Trump becomes a non-entity in the Republican Party.” Discuss how likely this is?
The entire Rethuglitard Party is in thrall to Trump. They are naught but zombies whose every thought and deed is subservient to his wishes.
Greenwald has been on fire since leaving the Intercept
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-ruling-coalition-opposition?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta
Black-pilled Greenwald is good Greenwald. I used to spar with him when he was terrible.
It keeps coming back to class. I am not a WalMart/NASCAR/lite beer/tshirt/NCIS guy. I am a snobby, effette, urban living, craft beer drinking guy with soft hands.
But I don’t disparage those people, I don’t sneer at them, I don’t look down on them. The GOP Establishment does. They fucking hate those unwashed rednecks who vote for them, and they constantly crave the approval of their fellow educated class. They hate the people that fix the toilets, drive the semi trucks, grow the food, fight the wars, dig the ditches. It absolutely drives them crazy that their base is people who unironically enjoy Toby Keith. They wish they had Hollywood celebs and tech executives and professors on their side, more than anything.
They lust after the college educated white suburban queen bee vote.
In a gay pal sort of way.
I live in a nation full of wet-wipes. Nothing south of the border means much. We lost our quasi first amendment the same year that I finished high school.
Must have really meant it, then.
Twice as nice.
Bipartisanship in action
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-18/california-legislators-defend-hawaii-trip-covid-19-surge
Nomenklatura
It keeps coming back to class. I am not a WalMart/NASCAR/lite beer/tshirt/NCIS guy. I am a snobby, effette, urban living, craft beer drinking guy with soft hands
I think I’m more what might be defined as a meta-snob. My tastes tend toward what might be classified as “traditional elite”. I think you don’t get to be a snob about living in the city unless you have a country house. I tend to drink craft, but I don’t pretend my class is a function of my consumer tastes. I think the fellow who works by the sweat of his brow knows a lot more about a host of things than I do (and vice versa). Comparing myself to him is demeaning to both of us.
In short, I’m a snob to the snobs (no one hear qualifies for that). Mostly, I think of them as embarrassing poseurs. I think they’re mostly half-educated, presumptuous and show a lack of grace or breeding. I think they only qualify as the elite of a degraded, uninteresting and spent popular culture.
And zero understanding of noblesse oblige
I’ve always felt I had a foot in both worlds.
I can pass in the technocracy with an Ivy League engineering degree. I prefer the high arts to NASCAR, Belgian Ales to Coors. classical to classic rock, etc…
However, my parents were both rural poor growing up and are self-made wealthy.
I never really wanted for anything, but I understood well what wanting is like. I witnessed it among relatives in rural Appalachia and in the third world while working.
I work with and respect people who perform physical labor for a living; contractors, plumbers, electricians…
As the years pass, I have less and less respect for my erstwhile Ivy League colleagues as my admiration grows for those who build, manufacture, and service for a living. I think it’s for one simple reason: they understand the fragility of our wealth, the effort it took to build it, and the ease with which it can be destroyed.
Very good points.
And sadly, all too many of our technocracy lack the thinking skills they’re supposed to bring to the equation. They’re so desperate to establish their place in the technocracy that they substitute technocratic opinion, attitudes and perspectives for actual thought.
I just did myself a mischief with my chef’s knife. Right on that fine line of do I go get a stitch or will cyanoacrylate do the trick. Anyway, cheese and seafood? HELL YEAH! Shrimp Po’ Boy, Oyster Po’ Boy, Softshell Crab Po’ Boy, etc., also Shrimp & Cheese Grits, Lobster Mac & Cheese, Oysters Rockefeller, Shrimp Parm, Shrimp Tacos, Fish Tacos, and that frightening but oh-so-yummy Baked Krab & Cheese that is always on the Chinese buffet.
Dairy and seafood is an abomination. I agree with the Asians on this one with a single exception, crab stuffed mushrooms topped with mozzarella and baked.
Sorry about your finger.
Thanks, hopefully it will be worth it; I was cutting meats for this – https://cookingfriends.forumotion.com/t1583-prosciutto-bread-with-provolone
Clams Casino?
Ouch! Sorry about the cut.
As to cheese and seafood, it depends on the cheese. Nothing that would overpower the seafood itself. Otherwise, what’s the point?